My home is a mess

Purpleclutterbuck

Me likey mantra BB

"Dont stress about what you didnt do - celebrate what you did do X"

Buddingblonde 2011

:D:D:T:T:T:cool::cool::cool:

Buddingblonde

Purpleclutterbuck wrote: »

Extremely Messy you have been found guilty of the crime of not ironing your husband's left sock and of not wiping the computer keyboard for the last 2 days -how do you plead?
I sentence you to a bar of chocolate and a cup of tea:rotfl:
( mmm.....slurp very tasty.....)
praps a dose of procrastination as well for good measure!!

LMAO!!!! What is the sentence for not making the bed and not putting away washing from Monday?

soupdragon10

Well cupcakes were OK (came out a bit smaller than I'd intended) but tasted nice so I didn't worry too much. Ended up making some mini quiches as well as I'd pastry left over (did a pastry base and no sides to cut down fat).

Actually went back and cleared the chaos after cooking, stacked dishwasher and wiped sink! Checked snakes and cleaned out two who had err.... decorated their vivaria :eek: OH helped me as it's really a 2 person job so I held the guilty parties while he changed paper etc...

Going to award myself a day off tomorrow :rotfl: what's the betting I get stuck into something anyway. Will enlist DD help to put up another line, was so nice bringing in fresh smelling washing and having hung up, it didn't get nearly as creased as in the dryer.

Have a happy Easter everyone.

Buddingblonde

God it seems everyone here is starting to get into the swing of things.
I love the fact that others find flylady and declutter boards too intense for beginners - this is baby steps for us lazy, messy sods that need a cleaner and a de clutterer and wont pay for either!

soupdragon10

BB if I had the money to pay a cleaner / declutterer I'd have to tidy up before they arrived! Maybe I have the slob approach to housework, I'd much rather read a book/play computer games/do the garden/in fact almost anything.

Do you think there is a housework gene that some of us lack

meanmarie

Do you think there is a housework gene that some of us lack?

Definitely Soupdragon, I accepted that years ago and am quite happy about it, although my late mother used to say that it was called laziness, she reckoned she hated housework but the house was always spotless.

I am now finding it necessary to do something as the house is shrinking so there is not as much room as before....funny that as all of our seven offspring have moved out and taken their belongings with them. Plan on clearing out the clutter in the hope of finding something valuable at the bottom of the pile!

Good luck to all

Marie

laurel7172

I definitely lack the housework gene.

What's more, I have the make-work gene. You know-the one that means you leave the oven to marinate in its cleaner (only occasionally, obviously), and the dissolved grease runs down the front of the kitchen cabinet, and into the cabinet so you have to wash up all the pans stored in there and take an old toothbrush to get the gunk out of the gap between the plinth and the floor?

Sometimes I think it would be more hygienic not to clean at all...:D

I work, I study, I'm a single parent, and my health isn't always great-I do what I can, sometimes in blitzes, sometimes a bit at a time. My top tip would be to use "dead zones" while something else is happening. I do a lot of housework while waiting for the kettle to boil. This afternoon I sorted out half a messy utility room while some sausages defrosted. The other half will get done, somehow...;)

laurel7172

I almost died a couple of years ago. Fine (so I thought) one day, in the bed next to the nurses' station in the acute ward the next....

What was I thinking? I can't die! My bereaved parents will have to go through six years of unfiled paperwork!

Can you imagine what a terrible thing that would be to do to anyone who has lost their daughter? With that particular imp on my shoulder, I caught up on my filing while I was off work recovering, and I've more-or-less kept it up-to-date since. That's my housekeeping priority...if I'm hit by a bus I want to leave as little financial mess as possible. If I die with a grubby kitchen floor, that doesn't really matter.

Buddingblonde

LMAO! Isnt it funny what thoughts pass through your mind when you are ill in hospital. For me the kitchen floor would have concerned me more - hey the paperwork would have been the last of my worries. Glad you are better now!
I have been up since 5 and had intented to do loads today but after huge family drama last night I am knackered and sore and very very fed up.
I think that I need to do something as the house is looking messy again but I really cant be ars*d.

GreyQueen

Sorry! Just had to let that one out. Am round at my parents' home for the Easter weekend and we are attempting to get the downstairs of the Most Cluttered Home on the Planet "company ready" for Sunday when we'll have my Nan as our guest for the day.

Nan's lovely and we do have the advantage in that she can't do stairs (we have downstairs cloakroom/ WC so she doesn't need to), plus she's only 5 feet tall so can't see the tops of the furniture, but other than that, it's absolute mayhem.

But Mum has made a lovely chocolate cake.....

Happy Easter!